A couple of days ago I spent about a day using Claude Code to translate a Polish book I desperately wanted my friends to read in to English, then we beta read it with my friend. There were a few issues, but a few rounds of planning mode and corrections and I now have an entire book, translated to English using AI in about a day, which even manages to capture much of the original humor.
This got me thinking about AI and writing original fiction. AI has notoriously been bad at writing. Well, maybe not bad, but very, very average. It could never write fiction which wasn't bland. I've been to curious however and decided to open pandora's box and made it research how to not sound like an AI and write a piece of original fiction.
I think this is the 1st time I've genuinely been terrified by technology. Mostly because it wrote an above average piece of fiction without me even half-trying. It was actually enjoyable to read and I don't know what to think about that.
On the one hand, it's nice you can now get personalised writing or whatever and if you enjoy it, who are we to stop you. On the other hand though as an artist this is really fucking irkfull. There is no humanity in that, or is there, because if you coordinate AI to write something based on your experiences, your issues, ETC does that make it valid?
IDK. This put me in a philosophical minefield so I'm putting it out there for y'all to discuss this with me.
